Milan: 1982. 343 pages, 244 b/w photographs, 50 color photographs, 216 drawings, 1 map. Cloth cover, dust jacket slightly creased: book in mint condition. Once again Fr. Cornet has published an important volume on the art of the Zairian people. This time the rites, dances, symbols and masks of the... More about ART ROYAL KUBA

Brussels: 1987. xvi, 245 pages, 105 pages of drawings of approximately 2000 ojbects. 6 maps. Small folio size. soft cover. This long-awaited handbook selected 100 Zairian groups that have had a significant history of producing anthropomorphic sculpture in the last century. For each of the 100 groups there is a.... More about 100 PEOPLES OF ZAIRE AND THEIR SCULPTURE: THE HAND-BOOK

Paris: 1980. 264 pages, 142 photographs--mostly full-page of nail fetishes, 3 pages of drawings, 1 map. Cloth cover. Edition limited to 800 copies. Mint condition with dust jacket. This volume, limited to a printing of 800 copies, is the major work available on nail fetishes. Given the prices of such... More about FETICHES A CLOUS DU BAS-ZAIRE

Paris: Fondation Dapper, 1986. 88 pages, 88 color and 37 b/w photographs of Kota reliquary figures, many of which were from the Charles Ratton collection, and had not been previously published, 1 map. In 1986 a conference "Panaroma of Kota Reliquary Figures" took place at the Fondation Dapper, and later... More about THE WAY OF THE ANCESTORS